Scientology: The Dynamics of Existence

Chap 2.
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SMaking
CIENTOLOGY
the World a Better Place
Founded and developed by L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology is an applied
religious philosophy which offers an exact route through which anyone can
regain the truth and simplicity of his spiritual self.
Scientology consists of specific axioms that define the underlying causes and
principles of existence and a vast area of observations in the humanities, a
philosophic body that literally applies to the entirety of life.
This broad body of knowledge resulted in two applications of the subject:
first, a technology for man to increase his spiritual awareness and attain the
freedom sought by many great philosophic teachings; and, second, a great
number of fundamental principles men can use to improve their lives. In fact, in
this second application, Scientology offers nothing less than practical methods
to better every aspect of our existence—means to create new ways of life. And
from this comes the subject matter you are about to read.
Compiled from the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, the data presented here is
but one of the tools which can be found in The Scientology Handbook. A
comprehensive guide, the handbook contains numerous applications of
Scientology which can be used to improve many other areas of life.
In this booklet, the editors have augmented the data with a short
introduction, practical exercises and examples of successful application.
Courses to increase your understanding and further materials to broaden
your knowledge are available at your nearest Scientology church or mission.
Listings are available at www.scientology.org.
Many new phenomena about man and life are described in Scientology, and
so you may encounter terms in these pages you are not familiar with. These are
described the first time they appear and in the glossary at the back of the booklet.
Scientology is for use. It is a practical philosophy, something one does. Using
this data, you can change conditions.
Millions of people who want to do something about the conditions they see
around them have applied this knowledge. They know that life can be improved.
And they know that Scientology works.
Use what you read in these pages to help yourself and others and you will
too.
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
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F or millennia, man has attempted to assess his place in this material

world. How should he relate to the rest of life, and to his fellows? What
are his true responsibilities, and to whom?
Definitive answers were not forthcoming, not from the ancient
Greeks, nor from the materialist thinkers of recent times.
And so it remained until L. Ron Hubbard realized his long sought-
after goal: the discovery of a unifying principle that applied to all life, a
common denominator by which all men and, indeed, all life, might be
understood.
From this came a flood of discoveries that cast new light on the
nature of man and life.
The principles in this booklet solve the ancient moral dilemma of
right and wrong and bring about a new level of rationality. With them,
one can now align the various factors of existence, invariably make the
right decisions when faced with choices and achieve a new perspective on
the directions available in his life.
Mr. Hubbard expanded upon these principles in numerous other
writings and lectures. But what follows represents the essence of the
subject and a practical approach to living successfully used by millions.■
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THE GOAL
OF MAN
he goal of man, the lowest common denominator of all

his activities, the dynamic principle of his existence, has
long been sought. Should such an answer be discovered,
it is inevitable that from it many answers would flow. It
would explain all phenomena of behavior; it would lead
toward a solution of man’s major problems; and, most of
all, it should be workable.
Such an answer has been discovered. It is:
The Dynamic Principle of Existence Is Survival.
The goal of life can be considered to be infinite survival. Man, as a life
form, can be demonstrated to obey in all his actions and purposes the one
command: “Survive!”
It is not a new thought that man is surviving. It is a new thought that man
is motivated only by survival.
That his single goal is survival does not mean that he is the optimum
survival mechanism which life has attained or will develop. The goal of the
dinosaur was also survival and the dinosaur isn’t extant anymore.
Obedience to this command, “Survive!” does not mean that every attempt
to obey is uniformly successful. Changing environment, mutation (change in
the form or nature of something) and many other things work against any one
organism attaining infallible survival techniques or form.
What would be the optimum survival characteristics of various life forms?
They would have to have various fundamental characteristics, differing from
one species to the next just as one environment differs from the next.
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This is important, since it has been but poorly considered in the past that
a set of survival characteristics in one species would not be survival
characteristics in another.
The methods of survival can be summed under the headings of food,

protection (defensive and offensive) and procreation. There are no existing
life forms which lack solutions to these problems. Every life form errs, one
way or another, by holding a characteristic too long or developing
characteristics which may lead to its extinction. But the developments which
bring about successfulness of form are far more striking than their errors. The
naturalist and biologist are continually resolving the characteristics of this or
that life form by discovering that need rather than whim governs such
developments. The hinges of the clam shell, the awesome “face” on the wings
of the butterfly, have survival value.
The goals of man, then, stem from the single goal of survival through a
conquest of the material universe. The success of his survival is measured in
terms of the broad survival of all.
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THE
DYNAMICS
Every individual is made up of a central thrust through existence. This
drive, this thrust through existence, is survival. It is the effort on the part of
the organism to survive.
We call the urge toward survival a dynamic.
As this urge becomes enturbulated (put into a state of agitation or

disturbance) or influenced by outside forces, it is either suppressed or it is
diluted with other people’s purposes. That is to say, other people force their
purposes on the individual. In either way, the dynamic itself becomes to some
slight degree enturbulated.
As the survival dynamic is cut back or as it is entered or acted upon by

other influences—other people and the regular suppressors of life, such as the
absence of food, clothing and shelter—this dynamic can become more and
more enturbulated until it is headed toward death, or succumb, exactly in the
opposite direction.
The dynamic goes toward succumb in the exact ratio that it is

enturbulated. It goes toward survival in the exact ratio that it is clean and
clear.
That is regarding it as just one dynamic. If we take a look at this dynamic

through a magnifying glass, we find that in this one thrust there are actually
eight thrusts, or eight dynamics.
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The first
dynamic is the
urge toward
existence as
one’s self. It is
the effort to
survive as an
individual, to be
an individual, to
attain the
highest level of
survival for the
longest possible
time for self.
Here we have
individuality
expressed fully.
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The second
dynamic is the
urge toward
existence as
a future
generation.
It has two
compartments:
sex; and the
family unit,
including the
rearing of
children.
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The third
dynamic is the
urge to survive
as part of a
group, with the
individual
himself
furnishing this
motivation.
Any group,
temporary or
permanent,
political or
social, is part of
the third
dynamic, and
each one is a
third dynamic.
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The fourth
dynamic is
survival through
man as a
species. Whereas
the white race
would be
considered a
third dynamic,
all the races of
man together
would be
considered the
fourth dynamic.
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The fifth
dynamic is the
urge to survive
for any and
every form of
life. These would
include all living
things, whether
animal or
vegetable,
anything directly
and intimately
motivated by
life. It is the
individual’s effort
to survive to
make life survive.
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The sixth
dynamic is the
urge toward
existence as the
physical
universe. It is the
drive of the
individual to
enhance the
survival of all
matter, energy,
space and
time—the
component parts
of the physical
universe which
we call MEST.
The individual
actually has a
thrust for the
survival of the
material
universe.
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The seventh
dynamic is the
urge toward
existence as or of
spirits. Anything
spiritual, with or
without identity,
would come
under the
heading of the
seventh
dynamic. This is
separate from
the physical
universe and is
the source of life
itself. Thus there
is an effort for
the survival of
life source.
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The eighth
dynamic is the
urge toward
existence as
infinity. This is
also identified as
the Supreme
Being. This can
be called the
infinity or God
dynamic.
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The Individual and His Dynamics

By inspection of man himself, an individual seems to have a thrust in each
one of these departments. In other words, an individual is interested in the
survival of groups on a parity with his own survival.
As soon as you knock out one of these dynamics on a human being and
you say “For this individual, this dynamic cannot possibly exist,” you get
trouble, because they all get knocked out. They come down on the same level.
In other words, if you cut out half of one dynamic, you have cut out half of
the rest of the dynamics. This package of dynamics is very vital to the survival
of an individual.
Right now we have a whole society which is educated along the line of
“man thinks for himself alone.” People have to be forced, whipped, beaten and
educated to have a third dynamic. They have to be jailed, they have to be sent
to school, they have to be punished, fined, taxed, made to go to the polls and
vote Democratic. All of these various things have to be done in order to make
a person have a third dynamic.
In other words, in this society they are working like mad to build
something which is already there. But take away all of these big structures
which train the individual to adapt to society and you will find lying behind
these structures a much prettier structure and a much stauncher one than any
artificial structure being built.
It is the same way on the fourth dynamic. Have you ever known anyone
who thought only cats were fit to associate with and that man was no good?
There are such people. “Men are no good. Men are cruel, they’re beasts, they
do terrible things. And the human race is no good and man is no good. But
cats and dogs and dear little dumb animals, these are what are nice.” In other
words, this person throws it all over on the fifth dynamic. She will be all right
and she can go on living only until that concept fails on her, because it is an
artificial concept.
Man can do almost anything he wants to these dynamics as long as he is

consistent about it. The second he gets inconsistent along any line he is in bad
shape.
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There is no thought or statement here that any one of these eight dynamics
is more important than the others. While they are categories of the broad
game of life they are not necessarily equal to each other. It will be found
among individuals that each person stresses one of the dynamics more than
the others, or may stress a combination of dynamics as more important than
other combinations.
The purpose in setting forth this division is to increase an understanding

of life by placing it in compartments. Having subdivided existence in this
fashion, each compartment can be inspected as itself and by itself in its
relationship to the other compartments of life. In working a puzzle it is
necessary to first take pieces of similar color or character and place them in
groups. In studying a subject it is necessary to proceed in an orderly fashion.
To promote this orderliness it is necessary to assume for our purposes these
eight arbitrary compartments of life.
A further manifestation of these dynamics is that they could best be

represented as a series of concentric circles wherein the first dynamic would
be the center and each new dynamic would be successively a circle outside it.
The idea of space adjoining enters into these dynamics.
The basic characteristic of the individual includes his ability to so expand

into the other dynamics, but when the seventh dynamic is reached in its
entirety one will only then discover the true eighth dynamic.
As an example of use of these dynamics, one discovers that a baby at birth

is not perceptive beyond the first dynamic, but as the child grows and its
interests extend it can be seen to embrace other dynamics. As a further
example of use, a person who is incapable of operating on the third dynamic
is incapable at once of being a part of a team and so might be said to be
incapable of a social existence.
How does man act so as to operate successfully along the dynamics? With
the state of the world around us, there is no evidence that an answer has been
forthcoming. It may seem to be a gift of natural insight in a few individuals;
however, this is far from the truth. Any person can acquire the knowledge he
needs to determine the most favorable course of action for his survival.
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4th dynamic
3rd dynamic
2nd dynamic
1st dynamic
The dynamics can

be represented as
a series of
8th dynamic concentric circles
with the first
7th dynamic dynamic at the
6th dynamic center. The
5th dynamic individual
expands outwards
as he embraces
the other
dynamics.
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Determining Optimum Solutions

An optimum solution of life takes into account the maximum survival for
everything concerned in the problem.
This does not mean that one cannot destroy. It so happens that if we didn’t
have destruction as one of the operating methods of existence, we would be
in pretty bad shape. Do you realize that every fern tree that was growing back
in the earliest ages would still be growing, and this would be in addition to
every tree that had grown since? And we would have live, growing trees on
the face of the earth until we would probably be walking about eight hundred
feet above the soil. Death—destruction—has to come in there and clear the
way for advances and improvements. And destruction, when used in that way,
is very legitimate.
For instance, you can’t build an apartment house without knocking down
the tenement that stood there before. Somebody comes along and says, “Oh,
that’s very bad; you’re destroying something. You’re destroying an old
landmark.”
“We’re trying to put up an apartment house here, lady.”
“Yes, but that’s a famous old landmark.”
“Lady, that thing is about ready to fall into the street.”
“Oh, it’s very bad to destroy things.”
That is pretty aberrated (not supported by reason, departing from rational
thought or behavior), because you have to destroy something once in a while.
Just think what would happen, for instance, if every piece of paper that had
ever been given you in your lifetime was still in your possession and then you had
to move, and it was very bad to destroy things so you had to keep on lugging
all these things around with you. You can see how ridiculous it would get.
There is an actual equation involved in this: One must not destroy beyond
the necessity required in construction.
If one starts to destroy beyond the necessity required in construction, one
gets into pretty bad shape very hurriedly. One gets into the shape Nazi
Germany was in. They destroyed everything; they said, “Now Austria, now
Czechoslovakia, now let’s knock apart Stalingrad!” So they did and Stalingrad
was an awful mess. So was Germany.
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The solution to the problem that does not consider all the dynamics is not an
optimum solution. Waste dumped into the sea may be expedient for some company’s
disposal problems but at huge expense to the fifth and sixth dynamics.
There is an old self-evident truth, “Never send to know for whom the bell
tolls; it tolls for thee.” Nothing is truer. People start looking at this and they
get superstitions about it. They say, “Well, I don’t dare harm anybody else
because then I would be harmed someplace or other.” This is not necessarily
true. But on the overall equation of life and existence, the willful destruction
of something can upset the survival of the other entities in its vicinity. It can
upset and overbalance things to a point where, for example, we don’t have any
more passenger pigeons. People didn’t stop and think, back there over a
hundred years ago, that one of these fine days there wouldn’t be any—
obviously, there were all kinds of them all over the sky.
So man has had to go into a tremendous game-conservation program in
order to restore the wildlife which his grandfathers wiped out. Man will do
this quite instinctively.
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The dynamics mean, simply, how many forms of survival are there? How
does an individual survive? You can work this out that the individual survives
solely because of himself and cooperates only because of selfishness. But you
can also work it out that he survives only for future generations and prove it
all very beautifully that way. You can work it out, as they did in Russia, that
the individual survives solely for the state and is only part of an ant society, a
collectivist, one who lives in a system where all property is owned or
controlled by the state. And so it goes, one right after the other. You can take
these ways he survives and you can make each one it. But when you put it to
the test, you find out that you need all of the dynamics.
The number of dynamics merely add up to the number of fields or entities

a man has to be in cooperation with in order to get along.
The optimum solution to any problem would be that solution which did the
maximum construction or creation along the maximum number of dynamics
pertinent to the problem.
Solutions which injure one dynamic for the benefit of another dynamic
result in eventual chaos. However, optimum solutions are almost possible to
attain and human thinking seeks at its highest level only to bring the greatest
order and the least chaos.
When an individual is in a low emotional tone, he will stress one or two

dynamics at the expense of the rest and so lives a very disorderly existence and
is productive of much chaos for those around him.
The soldier, flinging away his life in battle, is operating on the third
dynamic (his company, his nation) at the expense of his first dynamic, the
fourth and all the rest. The religionist, someone devoted to religion, may live
on the eighth, seventh, fifth and fourth at the expense of the first and sixth.
The “selfish” person may be living only on the first dynamic, a very chaotic
effort.
There is nothing particularly wrong with bad emphasis on these dynamics

until such emphasis begins to endanger them broadly, as in the case of a Hitler
or a Genghis Khan or the use of atomic fission for destruction. Then all man
begins to turn on the destroyers.
The whole of survival is a dynamic, the only dynamic. But survive breaks
down into these eight.
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The abilities and shortcomings of individuals can be understood by

viewing their participation in the various dynamics.
The equation of the optimum solution would be that a problem has been
well resolved which portends (signifies or means) the maximum good for the
maximum number of dynamics. That is to say that any solution, modified by
the time available to put the solution into effect, should be creative or
constructive for the greatest possible number of dynamics. The optimum
solution for any problem would be a solution which achieved the maximum
benefit in all the dynamics.
It is through application of these principles by oneself and by assisting

others to understand and apply them that an individual can attain an
increased level of survival for himself, those with whom he associates and,
indeed, all life.■
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PRACTICAL EXERCISES
Here are exercises relating to the eight dynamics. Doing these exercises will
help increase your understanding of the knowledge contained in this booklet.
1 Look around the environment and notice things that are surviving. How
many things can you find that are surviving? Go around and spot
examples of survival until you are certain that the goal of life is survival.
2 Look around your immediate environment and see how many of the
eight dynamics you can find. Look out a window or take a walk outside
and see how many examples you can find of the dynamics.
3 Select a situation or problem in your own life or in the life of someone

you know. Using what you have learned about the eight dynamics,
determine the optimum solution for it.
4 Now, help another person determine the optimum solution to a problem

in his life.
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RESULTS FROM APPLICATION

Knowing the dynamics of life makes it PEOPLE’S RESPONSES ABOUT WHAT
possible for hitherto unresolvable
problems to be resolved with ease. Any SCIENTOLOGY HAS DONE FOR THEM
concept in Scientology is considered 89% By gaining
useful to the degree it can be applied. 80% Improved
my life
certainty about
These pages contain examples of the Enabled what motivates
me to life, people
application of these fundamentals. 64% help have been able
Made me others to lead happier
In Adelaide, Australia, a woman who much
happier
better
lives, help
others and
had studied about the eight dynamics improve their
noticed that an employee in the same own lives.
company was always “in trouble” and
was, in fact, being threatened with
termination. As he seemed to be trying
to do a good job, she sat down with him
and proceeded to find out what was
happening.
“After listening to him for some time, I superiors. He was no longer continuously ‘in
realized that he had been neglecting himself trouble’ and, in fact, earned a promotion.”
totally. He wasn’t sleeping well or eating
enough, he didn’t spend any time doing A young man from Milano, Italy, was
anything to improve himself—nothing—and leading an active life. He played soccer on
he therefore was doing poorly at work. I a local team and had a girlfriend of whom
showed him the definitions of the dynamics. he was very fond. Life was fun. Then
It was as if it were an entirely new idea to some not-so-well-meaning acquaintances
him that he should look after himself. He started him using drugs. As his use of
had somehow imagined that he could do drugs increased, his life began falling
well at work while completely neglecting apart. He was fortunate enough to be
himself and he soon realized why he had shown data on the eight dynamics and
been doing poorly at work. He immediately halted the disastrous slide of his life. He
set about correcting the situation. While not said:
neglecting the third dynamic, he slept an
adequate amount, took better care of his “Some time ago, I went against all the
appearance, spent time with his family, and dynamics starting from the first one, and
took a course to improve himself and his as time went on, all the other dynamics
job performance. As a result, his job went to pieces, one after the other. My
performance improved, he was happier and girlfriend left me because I drugged
his worth to the company was noticed by his myself. Then my soccer team threw me
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out because I couldn’t play as well as I her the solution was to get in more
could before. All the rest of my dynamics communication, not less, and to be open
went like this because I started to drug with her mother rather than ignoring that
myself which was destroying my first part of her second dynamic. As a result of
dynamic. When I read the data on the her own realizations about the dynamics,
eight dynamics, I understood what had in a matter of a few weeks, she was really
happened in my life and I knew how to in communication with her mother and
put my life back together, piece by piece. was stably living at home. She had
This knowledge gave me the strength and stopped smoking dope and cut down on
courage it took to get off drugs and now I her drinking, so was doing much better on
devote all my time to getting other people the first dynamic. She even got a steady
off drugs. I am surviving on all my boyfriend. She did better in school and
dynamics and I always insist that others started getting better grades. After a
around me have the data on the eight while she got a part-time job and started
dynamics so that they can make the contributing financially to her parents.
correct decisions about their lives. It This was some real improvement in her
makes me think that if everyone had this life across all the dynamics.”
data, the world would be a happy place
and the people in it would fare very well.” One sometimes hears that one has to
“take life as it comes.” A girl from San
In Australia, a fifteen-year-old girl who Francisco found otherwise when she
learned the means to gain better control
knew the technology of the eight
dynamics, started to spend time with a and direction of her life using the
girl at her school and quickly discovered technology of the dynamics.
that her new friend was drinking, taking
drugs, being sexually promiscuous, and “When I was younger I had a good
fighting with her mother constantly. She life by most standards—a good student in
had already been kicked out of her home a good school, with no major problems to
once by her mother and had left home of speak of. But I felt that something was
her own accord a number of times, missing. I did not think that you could
despite being only fifteen years old. The really be in control of what happens to
girl needed help with her life. Here is how you. You just had to sit back, hope for the
her new friend provided it: best and take what came your way in life.
“I showed my friend some basic “When I started studying Scientology, I

technology on the eight dynamics and got found out that I actually could be in control of
her to see how her own actions could be my life, using the principle of the dynamics. I
affecting the behavior of her mother could make rational choices about what I
toward her; that the upsets were not would be involved with and how—friends,
necessarily ‘all her mother’s fault.’ I told job, school and other activities.
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“The ‘what will be will be’ way of life is taking action was immediate, and since I
now a thing of the past for me. I’m far happier can understand how what I do will affect
knowing that I am really contributing and the other parts of my life, my family, my
playing a game that I can win.” groups and so on, I can make good
decisions. I am putting more into each
A young man in Los Angeles uses the part of my life and improving on every
dynamic.
technology of the eight dynamics to guide
others toward happier lives. One person
he helped was a girl who had been selling “What used to look like an impossible,
street drugs. chaotic mess is straightening out, thanks to
this extraordinary technology.”
“I read about the dynamics in one of
L. Ron Hubbard’s books and I use this a
lot. It really explains the different parts of
On reading about the dynamics and
applying the technology to her life, a
life and how they work together. Boston woman broke out of a long-term
situation of being shy, introverted and
“I had one friend to whom the third noncommunicative.
dynamic, groups, was totally unreal. She
didn’t use drugs herself, but she was “Learning about the dynamics was
dealing cocaine. She thought since she like getting out of a prison.
wasn’t taking it herself there was no
harm. She had no concept of how it could “I spent the majority of my life very
hurt others. I showed her what Mr. introverted. Frankly, I think I could have
Hubbard had written about the dynamics, been mistaken for a piece of furniture: I
especially how all the dynamics have to almost never communicated and rarely
do with the main dynamic of survival. She contributed to anyone else’s communication.
finally saw the effects her actions could My life had very definite walls. My degree of
have, and stopped selling drugs. Actually contribution and participation was limited to
her life changed completely, for the say the least.
better.”
“I realized that I had to communicate
The way to a more understandable and contribute on each dynamic; that the
more I communicated and contributed,
existence—and one that could be
improved—was opened to an Oklahoma the better my life would become. Having
man who learned about the dynamics. this realization actually blew out the
walls. I’ve gotten busy and started
“In learning about the dynamics and contributing something very valuable.”
how they apply to my life, I’ve had some
tremendous realizations. The change in An administrator from Portland, Oregon
the way I go about making decisions and discovered the importance and benefits of
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keeping the dynamics functioning well the decision was easy since it was very
when he took time out of a busy schedule clear that the greatest good for the
to improve his family life. greatest number of dynamics was to take
the trip.
“When I was learning about the
dynamics I realized I had been neglecting
an important part of the second dynamic “My parents were thrilled to see me,
for a few years: I hadn’t visited my and we had a very good visit.
parents in quite a while. I saw that by
neglecting them and letting this dynamic “I took special care to talk with them
get into bad shape, the other dynamics about what I was doing in life, what my
were pulled down too. current interests were, what I was working
on and so forth. And I found out all about
“Though I had a very busy schedule what they were doing, too. It was a very
at my job and with other activities, I successful trip all around.
decided to make some time for a vacation
and go visit my family. In the past this “When I got back home several of my
would have been a tough decision to friends told me I looked younger and
make, and it probably would have seemed happier, which is just how I felt. That was
easier to just keep on with my work and the result of handling a dynamic that was
put off the vacation ‘until later.’ But now not in good shape.”
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GLOSSARY
aberrated: not supported by reason, “soul.” Dianetics is a methodology devel-
departing from rational thought or behavior. oped by L. Ron Hubbard which can help
See also aberration in this glossary. alleviate such ailments as unwanted sensa-
tions and emotions, irrational fears and
aberration: a departure from rational
psychosomatic illnesses. It is most accu-
thought or behavior; irrational thought or
rately described as what the soul is doing to
conduct. It means basically to err, to make
the body through the mind.
mistakes, or more specifically to have fixed
ideas which are not true. The word is also dynamic: an urge to survive along a certain
used in its scientific sense. It means course; an urge toward existence in an area
departure from a straight line. If a line of life. There are eight dynamics: first, self;
should go from A to B, then if it is aberrated second, sex and the family unit; third,
it would go from A to some other point, to groups; fourth, mankind; fifth, life forms;
some other point, to some other point, to sixth, physical universe; seventh, spirits; and
some other point, to some other point, and eighth, Supreme Being.
finally arrive at B. Taken in this sense, it enturbulate: put into a state of agitation or
would also mean the lack of straightness or disturbance.
to see crookedly as, for example, a man sees
Scientology: an applied religious philoso-
a horse but thinks he sees an elephant.
phy developed by L. Ron Hubbard. It is the
Aberrated conduct would be wrong
study and handling of the spirit in relation-
conduct, or conduct not supported by
ship to itself, universes and other life. The
reason. Aberration is opposed to sanity,
word Scientology comes from the Latin scio,
which would be its opposite. From the
which means “know” and the Greek word
Latin, aberrare, to wander from; Latin, ab,
logos, meaning “the word or outward form
away, errare, to wander.
by which the inward thought is expressed
Dianetics: comes from the Greek words and made known.” Thus, Scientology
dia, meaning “through” and nous, meaning means knowing about knowing.
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ABOUT
L. RON HUBBARD
N o more fitting statement typifies the life of L. Ron Hubbard than his
simple declaration: “I like to help others and count it as my greatest
pleasure in life to see a person free himself from the shadows which darken
his days.” Behind these pivotal words stands a lifetime of service to
mankind and a legacy of wisdom that enables anyone to attain
long-cherished dreams of happiness and spiritual freedom.
Born in Tilden, Nebraska on March 13, 1911, his road of discovery and
dedication to his fellows began at an early age. “I wanted other people to be
happy, and could not understand why they weren’t,” he wrote of his youth;
and therein lay the sentiments that would long guide his steps. By the age of
nineteen, he had traveled more than a quarter of a million miles, examining
the cultures of Java, Japan, India and the Philippines.
Returning to the United States in 1929, Ron resumed his formal education
and studied mathematics, engineering and the then new field of nuclear
physics—all providing vital tools for continued research. To finance that
research, Ron embarked upon a literary career in the early 1930s, and soon
became one of the most widely read authors of popular fiction. Yet never
losing sight of his primary goal, he continued his mainline research through
extensive travel and expeditions.
With the advent of World War II, he entered the United States Navy as a
lieutenant (junior grade) and served as commander of antisubmarine
corvettes. Left partially blind and lame from injuries sustained during
combat, he was diagnosed as permanently disabled by 1945. Through
application of his theories on the mind, however, he was not only able to
help fellow servicemen, but also to regain his own health.
After five more years of intensive research, Ron’s discoveries were
presented to the world in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. The
first popular handbook on the human mind expressly written for the man in
the street, Dianetics ushered in a new era of hope for mankind and a new
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phase of life for its author. He did, however, not cease his research, and as
breakthrough after breakthrough was carefully codified through late 1951,
the applied religious philosophy of Scientology was born.
Because Scientology explains the whole of life, there is no aspect of man’s

existence that L. Ron Hubbard’s subsequent work did not address. Residing
variously in the United States and England, his continued research brought
forth solutions to such social ills as declining educational standards and
pandemic drug abuse.
All told, L. Ron Hubbard’s works on Scientology and Dianetics total forty
million words of recorded lectures, books and writings. Together, these
constitute the legacy of a lifetime that ended on January 24, 1986. Yet the
passing of L. Ron Hubbard in no way constituted an end; for with a hundred
million of his books in circulation and millions of people daily applying his
technologies for betterment, it can truly be said the world still has no greater
friend.■
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F or millennia, man has attempted to assess his place in this material

he goal of man, the lowest common denominator of all

The methods of survival can be summed under the headings of food,

We call the urge toward survival a dynamic.

As this urge becomes enturbulated (put into a state of agitation or

As the survival dynamic is cut back or as it is entered or acted upon by

The dynamic goes toward succumb in the exact ratio that it is

That is regarding it as just one dynamic. If we take a look at this dynamic

The Individual and His Dynamics

Man can do almost anything he wants to these dynamics as long as he is

The purpose in setting forth this division is to increase an understanding

A further manifestation of these dynamics is that they could best be

The basic characteristic of the individual includes his ability to so expand

As an example of use of these dynamics, one discovers that a baby at birth

The dynamics can

Determining Optimum Solutions

The number of dynamics merely add up to the number of fields or entities

When an individual is in a low emotional tone, he will stress one or two

There is nothing particularly wrong with bad emphasis on these dynamics

The abilities and shortcomings of individuals can be understood by

It is through application of these principles by oneself and by assisting

3 Select a situation or problem in your own life or in the life of someone

4 Now, help another person determine the optimum solution to a problem

RESULTS FROM APPLICATION

“I showed my friend some basic “When I started studying Scientology, I

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